Jefferson County MS4 Permitting

Project Type:
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permitting

Size:
N/A

Location:
22 Municipalities and Unincorporated Jefferson County

Services Provided:
Environmental Permitting, GIS Mapping

Challenges:
Multiple municipalities, Reconciliation of EPA regulations and ADEM Permit requirements, Flexibility in capturing storm events at any time of the day or week.

Schoel has assisted Jefferson County with its stormwater permitting program since its inception in the early 1990's. This included assisting Jefferson County in the application process and representative stormwater monitoring for their landfills and wastewater treatment plants during the industrial permit application phase of the stormwater program. In addition, Schoel was the lead consultant for Jefferson County and 22 municipalities in the Part 1 and Part 2 municipal stormwater permit application phase and performed the first year of screening and representative monitoring during the first permit year. In 1999, Schoel assisted Jefferson County Environmental Services in a study on the Cahaba River that required wet and dry weather sampling, representative stormwater monitoring, and real-time monitoring of water quality parameters with data sondes deployed throughout the Cahaba River Basin. All these projects have included field investigations to establish the monitoring sites, installation of monitoring equipment, storm water monitoring with ISCO automated sampling equipment, developing discharge rating curves for monitoring site and establishing quality control and assurance procedures for the field sampling and laboratory analysis.

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